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When I have time I can give a code example, but the basic setup was an Optional of type T (absent), casted to R (.cast<R>()) and then orElse(instanceOfR) was throwing a runtime error which described the problem as expected T but got R.

On 3.0.0, I do not get this error.

Hi @tonio-ramirez,

When using the library in a null safe context it becomes difficult to get a null out of the Optional without being verbose and using if statements or using map<T?>(identity).

final Optional<String> data = Optional.of("data");
final String? value = data.orElse(null);

Fails analysis with

Error: The value 'null' can't be assigned to the parameter type 'String' because 'String' is not nullable.

Adding these to the library would make life easier

T? orElseNullable(T? other)
T? get orElseNull

Thanks again for the awesome library!
James

import 'package:optional/optional.dart';

void main() {
  Optional<int> b = Optional.of(33);
  print(b); // Optional[value: 33]
  print(b.map((i) => i/2)); // Optional[value: 16.5]
  Optional<int> c = Optional.empty();
  print(c); // Optional[empty]
  print(c.map((i) => i/2)); // Unhandled exception: type '_Absent<dynamic>' is not a subtype of type 'Optional<double>'
  Optional<int> d = Optional.ofNullable(null);
  print(d); // Optional[empty]
  print(d.map((i) => i/2)); // Unhandled exception: type '_Absent<dynamic>' is not a subtype of type 'Optional<double>'
}

In the above snippet, map operations over an empty Optional result in an exception.
The expectation was for an empty Optional to silently remain unchanged when mapped over. I'm used to working with scala's Options, which work this way. A quick look suggests that java's Optional also works the way I expect.

Could you please add a "orElse" to ifPresent?

    void ifPresent(void consume(T val),{ void orElse() }) {
        if(isPresent) {
            consume(_value);
        } else if(orElse != null) {
            orElse();
        }
    }

void ifPresent(void consume(T val)) => Function.apply(consume, [_value]);

First of all: Thanks for your lib!

Features request:

    factory RestStatus(final int code, final String description, final String reason,{ final Optional<List<String>> stacktrace = const Optional.empty(), final Optional<Uri> uri = const Optional.empty()}) {
        return new RestStatus._internal(new RestStatusData(code,description,reason,stacktrace,uri));
    }

As you can see - it would be cool to give Darts optional values an Optional data type.
Thanks

I want to load a chat if one is present or else create one asynchronously.
Lets imagine i have a chat app.

What I would like to write is something like this:

  Future<ChatView> loadOrCreateChat(String id) async {
    final maybeChat = await repository.loadChat(id);
    final chat = await maybeChat.orElseGetAsync(() => _createChat(id));
    return chatViewFactory.createView(chat);
  }

What I have to write is:

  Future<ChatView> loadOrCreateChat(String id) async {
    final maybeChat = await repository.loadChat(id);
    final casted = maybeChat.cast<FutureOr<Chat>>();
    final chat = await casted.orElseGet(() => _createChat(id));
    return chatViewFactory.createView(chat);
  }

Basically I dont want to cast manually.

Here is a minimal example:

import 'dart:async';

import 'package:optional/optional.dart';
import 'package:test/test.dart';

void main() {
  ChatViewLoader bloc;
  ChatRepository repository;

  setUp(() {
    repository = ChatRepository();
    bloc = ChatViewLoader(repository, ChatViewFactory());
  });

  test('creates chat if chat from repo is empty', () async {
    repository.returnEmpty = true;

    final view = await bloc.loadOrCreateChat('id');

    expect(view.fromRepo, false);
  });
  test('does not create chat if chat from repo is non-empty', () async {
    repository.returnEmpty = false;

    final view = await bloc.loadOrCreateChat('id');

    expect(view.fromRepo, true);
  });
}

class ChatViewLoader {
  final ChatRepository repository;
  final ChatViewFactory chatViewFactory;

  ChatViewLoader(this.repository, this.chatViewFactory);

  Future<Chat> _createChat(String id) async {
    return Chat(false);
  }

  Future<ChatView> loadOrCreateChat(String id) async {
    final maybeChat = await repository.loadChat(id);
    final casted = maybeChat.cast<FutureOr<Chat>>();
    final chat = await casted.orElseGet(() => _createChat(id));
    return chatViewFactory.createView(chat);
  }
}

class ChatRepository {
  bool returnEmpty = true;
  Future<Optional<Chat>> loadChat(String id) async {
    return returnEmpty ? Optional.empty() : Optional.of(Chat(true));
  }
}

class Chat {
  final bool fromRepo;

  Chat(this.fromRepo);
}

class ChatView {
  final bool fromRepo;

  ChatView(this.fromRepo);
}

class ChatViewFactory {
  Future<ChatView> createView(Chat chat) async {
    return ChatView(chat.fromRepo);
  }
}

Any chances the ^6.0.0-nullsafety.2 will become the 6.0.0 release sooner rather than later?

To save HEAPS of code unwrapping or mapping it would be great to have a contains. Currently I have to:

T t = ...;
Optional<T> o = Optional.of(t);
bool contains1 = o.map((v)=>v == t).orElse(false);
bool contains2 = o.isPresent ? o.value == t : false;

Suggested signature and implementation

Signature:
  bool contains(T val);
Absent:
  bool contains(T val) => false;
Present:
  bool contains(T val) => _value == val;

Hi @tonio-ramirez,

Can you please revert the change made to OptionalExtension as it no longer handles null values with toOptional.

 Optional<T> get toOptional => Optional.of(this);

Should be

 Optional<T> get toOptional => Optional.ofNullable(this);

Missing test case for test/src/extension.dart

    test('null.toOptional == Optional.empty()', () {
      expect(null.toOptional, equals(Optional.empty()));
    });

Many thanks!
James

Hi @tonio-ramirez

I have a proposal to include an extension method for creating Optionals which avoids wrapping every instance you create in the factory constructor Optional.of().

The syntax extension makes it possible to write this following:

Optional<MyObject> oMo = Optional.of(mo);

like this instead:

Optional<MyObject> oMo = mo.toOptional;

It is also has the benefit that it becomes about 10 times quicker to construct the Optional as you get code completion from the IDE!

import 'package:optional/optional.dart';

extension OptionalExtension<T> on T {

  Optional<T> get toOptional => Optional.ofNullable(this);

}

The only downside when making this change is it increases the SDK dependency for Dart from 2.0.0 to 2.6.0 to get the new language feature.

My personal view on the SDK dependency is that the current state of the library is extremely "stable" such that anyone on who requires a <2.6.0 SDK dependency is most likely going to be require any bug fix releases.

You could probably get away with a major version bump to v4 to accompany the change if you wanted to keep the door open for a legacy v3 branch for any bug fixes which may happen where you wanted to maintain 2.0.0 compatibility.

Github code works fine when mapping empty optionals because of added 'cast' method:

  @override
  Optional<R> map<R>(R mapper(T val)) => empty.cast();

but this cast is missing in https://pub.dartlang.org/ official release

  @override
  Optional<R> map<R>(R mapper(T val)) => empty;

-- edit --
Looks like Github version is not working either - I've submitted PR.